Changing digital edition users on pc

Hi, has anyone experienced using digital editions in an library with multiple machines and multi users moving from machine to machine. I understand that each user is limited to five different machines and that each machine is limited to five different users. So the question is how easy and how quick is it to reset either the machines that a user has or to reset a machine to clear users.

No - each user is limited to 6 computer activations and (seperately) 6 device activations. However, once an activation is used it is gone, and deactivating does not get it back.
Encouraging your users to switch computers with ADE will lead to them getting the E_ADEPT_TOO_MANY_ACTIVATIONS (or something like that) error, which can only be fixed by Adobe - which is now a royal PITA - see http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1029996?tstart=0 for one such recent example.
ADE was not designed for, and does not work well in an institutional environment.

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Hmm, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. I searched my entire drive for "digital editions", and this is the whole thing:
/Applications/Adobe Digital Editions 3.0.app
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/Users/user/Documents/Digital Editions
/Users/user/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
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/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.DigitalEditions.plist
The application itself, three small files scattered in your user account, to unimportant installation receipt files, and another preference file in the root Library folder. Removing those should remove everything related to version 3, which is what I have installed.
Where I substituted "user" above (for the three entries of /Users/user/...), replace that with whatever the actual name of your user account is.
Edit: I double checked the installer using a small app that sorts out every file in an installer, and where each item would normally be installed. The main app is literally the only item in the installer. The receipts are created by the OS per the installer's data, and the other minor preference files are created when the app is first run. There is nothing else.

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OK, so yeah, I *SHOULD* have known better...
A few months back, against my better judgement and without doing the proper due diligence, I tried installing Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 onto the primary drive of my MacBook Pro (running MacOS 10.6.8).
The tell-tail signs:
PROBLEM #1
While there IS readily available "Tech Specs" documentation for the current Adobe Digital Editions v4.0.1 installer for MacOS (which clearly states "Mac OS X v10.8 or later" is REQUIRED), there is absolutely NO indication or similar documentation for supported system software for PREVIOUS versions of Adobe Digital Editions.
Reference URL:
http://www.adobe.com/support/digitaleditions/downloads.html
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PROBLEM #2b
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PROBLEM #2c
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PROBLEM #2d
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PROBLEM #3
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1. From your user directory, locate /Applications
2. Drag the digitaleditions1x5 folder to the Trash, and empty the Trash.
Reference URL:
http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/cant-install-digital-editions.html
PROBLEM #4
Adobe's "What are my contact options?" page indicates BOTH "Chat (within 90 days of registration)" and "Forums" as available "Basic Support" options for Adobe "Digital Editions" software for "Download, install, setup" help, however, "Forums" is the ONLY available choice under "Contact options" for on Adobe's "Contact Customer Care" page (for "Download, install, setup" help with Digital Editions).
Reference URL:
http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=ADE_downloading-installing-setting-up_s tillNeedHelp
PROBLEM #5
The ONLY available "Basic Support" option for "How-to's & troubleshooting" help is the Adobe Forums...and this is an example of the type nonsense response (then followed by NON-response) that one might receive there:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6570142
[NOTE: After MUCH searching I did, however, manage to find a potentially interesting "Let us know how we’re doing" link (under the "Our support promise" link found on the "What are my contact options? page). I am going to send them a brief message along with a link to THIS post and hope for the best.]
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http://helpx.adobe.com/contact/what-contact-options.html
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While I did NOT realize this prior to my attempting to install Adobe Digital Editions, apparently it would require me to "activate" my computer with an Adobe ID.
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Reference URL:
http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/faq.html
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http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-eboo k-libraries/
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So, now I have this TOTAL crap, super duper DRM software that required root-level permission to install (AND I couldn't even run this installed v3.0 copy under my preferred MacOS 10.6.8 if I wanted to...but, of course, I now have ABSOLUTELY NO desire to ever use this software again), and I just want to COMPLETELY remove all traces of it from my computer!
A pretty thorough Google search yielded several so-called "solutions" that were as bad or EVEN worse than the very limited "official" resources found directly from Adobe!
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Thank you SO MUCH for your time and consideration in reading!!!
Sincerely,
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Hmm, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. I searched my entire drive for "digital editions", and this is the whole thing:
/Applications/Adobe Digital Editions 3.0.app
/Users/user/Library/Caches/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app
/Users/user/Documents/Digital Editions
/Users/user/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.DigitalEditions.plist
The application itself, three small files scattered in your user account, to unimportant installation receipt files, and another preference file in the root Library folder. Removing those should remove everything related to version 3, which is what I have installed.
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I installed Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 and attempted to do a text search. I found that if the document was encoded as ePub, the search worked fine. If the documented was encoded as PDF, the search fails. Is anyone else having this problem?

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/Applications/Adobe Digital Editions 3.0.app
/Users/user/Library/Caches/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app
/Users/user/Documents/Digital Editions
/Users/user/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.DigitalEditions.plist
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Solution
Deauthorize the current user:
Open Adobe Digital Editions.
Press Control-Shift-D (Windows) or Shift-Command-D (Mac OS) to deauthorize Adobe Digital Editions.
Choose Help > Authorize Adobe Digital Editions
Additional information
This issue occurs when you have previously activated with an anonymous Adobe ID. The deauthorization process deactivates the anonymous ID and allows you to sign in.
If you made any purchases with the anonymous ID, contact the eBook provider to reset the activation information. Then, redownload the purchase and it is tied to the currently activated ID.
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I created a custom button in ALV tool bar.   And also in my ALV grid I have couple of fields Editable option. User can change values for these 2 fields.
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TABLES
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I should have explained that I have already seen 'Getting Started with Adobe Digital Editions', an epub document that comes with the software. It is only nine pages long, more of a quick guide than a manual. I had expected that there would be more to the software than is covered there. Perhaps there isn't. (To explain a little further: I was looking for a way to cause epub pages to print or display like the pages of the original book, but couldn't find anything about printing beyond. That feature is present in the Bluefire Reader for iOS devices. I tried printing a particular page using Ctrl+P and specifying the page number. The page printed, but it was spread over two sheets of A4 paper and the page number was not printed.)

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